Hadoop General Interview Questions
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What happens if one hadoop client renames a file or a directory containing this file while another client is still writing into it?

351

Which directory does hadoop install to?

366

Why use hadoop?

315

What are the actions followed by hadoop?

333

What kind of hardware is best for hadoop?

303

Where are hadoop’s configuration files located and list them?

297

How jobtracker assign tasks to the tasktracker?

309

What are the functionalities of jobtracer?

300

What does rack awareness mean?

290

What the information segments utilized by hadoop are?

300

Clarify what a task tracker is in hadoop?

313

How ordering in hdfs is finished?

309

Clarify what is sequence file input format?

348

How job tracker schedules an assignment?

291

Clarify what jobtracker is in hadoop? What are the activities followed by hadoop?

327


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How will you write a custom partitioner for a Hadoop job?

327


Explain how can we check whether namenode is working or not?

391


What are the most common InputFormats in Hadoop?

400


Is Namenode machine same as DataNode machine as in terms of hardware?

332


Define data cleansing?

282


Mention what is data cleansing?

306


What does the mapred.job.tracker command do?

317


What is Mapper? How can we compress Mapper output in Hadoop?

323


What are the features of Standalone (local) mode?

394


What are the main components of hadoop?

295


What is replication factor?

319


What is the basic difference between traditional RDBMS and Hadoop?

324


Explain the common input formats in hadoop?

336


What is Disk Balancer in Hadoop?

303


Can you explain commodity hardware?

307